Chapter 597 Shendai Pharmaceutical Company (3k)
“Uh…”
Su Jiu blinked, her gaze sweeping over the middle-aged female teacher with red glasses frames in front of her. She quickly explained, “I’m a graduate student invited back by Principal Fusheng; I’m not late…”
She didn’t know what she was saying, and for a moment, it was as if she had returned to the time when she lied after being caught by her homeroom teacher.
“Stand straight! You can’t even come up with such a lame excuse. Come to my office later.”
The middle-aged female teacher glared at Su Jiu, commanded, and then stood behind Su Jiu like a scarecrow, constantly looking ahead, as if wondering which class the student was from.
“Uh, okay.”
Su Jiu was speechless under that sharp gaze. She didn’t know what to say. Back then, most of the teachers had been transferred away due to the shadow of the Ancient God Sect.
This new teacher didn’t recognize her. However, she needed to inquire about this Shendai Pharmaceutical Company later, so she didn’t say anything more and looked back up at the suit-wearing man above.
“Everyone is now a warrior about to enter senior year. No matter what, you can’t be as lazy as this person, haha…”
Seeing that it was just a trivial matter among students, the suit-wearing man chuckled it off. He even started doing small jogging motions, using the Cherry Blossom Country’s method of relieving embarrassment – exaggerated gestures and movements – to continue his speech about the potion’s effects.
Meanwhile, the students occasionally snickered, clearly showing that the Cherry Blossom Country’s awkward laughter to ease tension was somewhat effective.
“They’re really trying hard to sell their medicine.”
Su Jiu, standing below, felt an inexplicable awkwardness for the person on stage, even though she wasn’t the one presenting. She then shifted her gaze to the potion.
She had to get her hands on a bottle of this stuff. For all intents and purposes, selling medicine with safety issues at her alma mater, she had to intervene.
“Minasan! Watashi knows you must be skeptical about the potion’s performance, so I’ve specially selected a lucky audience member…”
After saying what seemed like a lot of nonsense, the suit-wearing man closed his eyes and lightly pointed his finger, then gestured towards a glasses boy in the front row of Senior Year Class B, and said with a smile, “It’s you, come up quickly, lucky boy.”
Under everyone’s envious gazes, the boy was chosen. His eyes widened, and joy surged onto his face. Even for a good family, a potion costing thirty thousand yuan was a considerable expense. He actually got it for free?
After going on stage, the glasses boy took the crimson potion, swallowed hard, a fierce look in his eyes, and then consumed the potion.
“Let the potion take effect in a moment…”
Under everyone’s gaze, the suit-wearing man let out a faint smile. There were no changes in ten seconds, and after one minute, the boy also showed no changes. Five minutes passed…
Just as everyone thought the medicine wasn’t effective, Su Jiu’s eyes narrowed slightly, confusion showing in her eyes. She muttered to herself, “He actually broke through, directly from an Initial Stage Warrior to an Intermediate Stage Warrior. This kind of medicine, selling for only thirty thousand yuan, shouldn’t have this effect…”
On the lawn not far behind Su Jiu, the female teacher heard Su Jiu’s words and felt that this strange student seemed a bit prematurely wise. She then struck up a conversation, “Thirty thousand yuan is half a year’s income for an ordinary family. Having an effect…”
However, she didn’t think carefully about why Su Jiu was the first to discover the anomaly.
“It has an effect, but it shouldn’t be this kind of effect. Nothing can be achieved overnight. It’s like you can’t poop immediately after eating.”
Waving to interrupt the female teacher, Su Jiu explained softly, her gaze still fixed on the stage. As expected, when the boy announced his breakthrough, a thunderous applause like a surging tide erupted from the audience.
“Holy crap, this potion is really effective! I’ll have my dad transfer the money right away to buy it!”
“Don’t you dare try to snatch it from me, I want two bottles!”
“No man, you’re from Class A, and you’re still trying to snatch it?”
Almost every student wanted to obtain this potion. The middle-aged man, worthy of being in marketing, took advantage of the heated atmosphere and immediately started selling vigorously. Soon, all 49 bottles of the potion were sold out.
The teachers with children also appeared unhurried. Su Jiu guessed that the kickbacks were probably related to this potion.
However, there were still many eager students left, especially those from classes other than Class A. They realized that with this potion, it wasn’t impossible to leap forward and surpass the so-called top classes.
“This guy probably isn’t just here to sell medicine.”
Humming a tune softly, Su Jiu’s gaze swept over the suit-wearing man, looking at his smiling face. It seemed he was waiting for his next move.
With a little thought, why would such a popular item be sold at a low price and in limited quantities? A normal person would sell it for at least a hundred thousand yuan per bottle.
There must be something more.
Even if there wasn’t, it would be easy for Su Jiu to trade a better potion with a student for a bottle.
As expected, the rather Japanese-styled suit-wearing man raised his hands and pressed them towards the audience, smiling and explaining:
“Everyone, don’t rush! This is just a test product from our Shendai Pharmaceutical Company. As the agent for the Dragon Country, I don’t have any finished products on me…”
The man paused, took out a form from his hand, and whispered to the female principal beside him, as if discussing other matters. The female principal’s brows furrowed, as if what he said was beyond her expectations…
Meanwhile, Su Jiu smiled slightly, a hint of curiosity in her eyes, anticipating the next move, wondering what the trick would be.
“Ahem, the following matters are agreements between individual students and Shendai Pharmaceutical Company and have nothing to do with Zhiyuan High School.”
After discussing on stage for more than ten minutes, the female principal said somewhat sternly, and then, with a nod from the suit-wearing man, slowly stepped down from the stage.
The suit-wearing man took the microphone back, a strange smile on his face. He raised the white agreement paper in his left hand and said loudly to the students below:
“Students, our pharmaceutical company is only established in the main territory of the Cherry Blossom Country. This time, we have come to the Dragon Country only to expand our external business. If you want to obtain more medicine, it’s actually very simple…”
He paused, and as the students watched with bated breath, he pointed to the agreement paper with the microphone and continued with a smile:
“That is to become a volunteer for our pharmaceutical company and try new drugs at our base. That new drug has even better efficacy than this one, and there’s even a certain chance that low-rank warriors can break through to high-rank warriors within ten days.”
“Students don’t need to worry about the difficulties of overseas travel. Shendai Pharmaceutical Company is founded by the Shendai family, one of the eight major families in the Cherry Blossom Country, and can help you with visas for free…”
The suit-wearing man’s face was filled with an indescribable smile:
“Sign up now, first come, first served!!”
Su Jiu listened quietly. She had already smelled something fishy. A legitimate pharmaceutical company wouldn’t gloss over the downsides and only emphasize efficacy without mentioning side effects.
Growing to this extent in ten days was impossible for the body to withstand, so she couldn’t help but suspect it was a scam.
But Su Jiu knew that the students didn’t. Those from the less reputable classes rushed forward, almost all of them surging onto the stage at the same time.
Reaching the High-Rank Warrior level before the Gaokao would allow them to get into many prestigious universities, even if they couldn’t get into the top five.
Rationality might be there, but what if they saw their peers rush out?
No one wanted to be told, “Thirty years east, thirty years west.”
“Aren’t you going to grab one?”
The female teacher in the red glasses asked Su Jiu instinctively. When her gaze fell on that spot, she strangely found that the person had disappeared. A sudden chilling feeling crept into her heart.
“Could this be the student who died in vain last year at this school…”
Thus, the red-eyed female teacher began to clasp her hands and pray as she watched Su Jiu disappear.
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Leaning against the wall pillar, Su Jiu held the agreement in her hand and read “If death occurs during the drug trial, you can apply for compensation of two million Japanese Yen.” The corners of her mouth twitched abruptly.
This was truly a heartless company. The exchange rate between the two countries was nearly 30 to 1, which was basically taking advantage of the students not reading the contract carefully.
“Departing from Fangchenggang in three days, the location is Bainiao City in Kagoshima. It happens to pass by the High Seas Black Market I need to go to. The black market opens in three days and lasts for three days. It should be on the way.”
Su Jiu quickly recorded the location. Then, she quickly scanned the other terms and found no anomalies before signing her forged information and submitting it.
Afterward, she would go to the location provided by them to check it out.
Trying to arrest them now was unlikely. At most, she could accuse them of smuggling medicine, but in this world with alchemic storage bags, smuggling had long become commonplace.
“Excuse me, are you Senior Jiu Su?”
A voice called out to Su Jiu. She turned her head and saw a girl with neat, shoulder-length short hair looking at her, also holding a white paper with the agreement.
“You’re… Xiao Guang? What are you doing here?”
Su Jiu had some impression of this girl. She had been “interacting” with her in the Southwest Military Region. She didn’t expect to see her at her alma mater.
Xiao Guang suppressed the excitement on her face and explained to Su Jiu her reasons for being here. Influenced by Su Jiu, she wanted to see under what kind of environment the ace who could directly face the Black-clad Bishop had studied.
Rarely using her family’s connections, she transferred to Su Jiu’s alma mater. To avoid using any family resources, she even joined the Demon Hunter Organization and became a low-level civil servant.
“The agreement said we depart in three days. Jiu… Senior Su Jiu, are you going too?”
Now, she also wanted to secretly go to the Cherry Blossom Country for the sake of this potion, without letting her family know.
Su Jiu looked at the girl in front of her, who had matured somewhat. She nodded lightly and then reminded her quite seriously, “I’m going, but I don’t recommend you go. This Kobe Pharmaceutical Company might be very dangerous, and the Cherry Blossom Country hasn’t been very peaceful lately.”
“With you here, how could there be danger?”
Xiao Guang chuckled lightly, determination in her eyes, clearly having made up her mind to go.
“Beep beep…”
“Hold on a moment, I’m taking a call.”
Just as she was about to persuade her further, the phone in Su Jiu’s pocket suddenly rang. She answered it, and Bai Zhi’s voice came from the other end, sounding both helpless and excited:
“Xiao Jiu Jiu, I’ve seen you these past two days and used some resources. I seem to be on the verge of breaking through to the War God level, uh…”
“That’s great, but you sound like there’s something else?”
Knowing that Bai Zhi was about to break through to the War God level, Su Jiu wasn’t surprised. Bai Zhi could have broken through back then; her laws were complete, and once the time was right, everything would fall into place.
“So, please take care of the child for me for over a month… That’s it, I’ll have Xiao Bairnis bring her to you!”
The voice on the other end hesitated, as if worried Su Jiu would disagree. She quickly hung up the phone like a scumbag.
“Ah?!”
Su Jiu blinked, listening to the dial tone. After a long silence, she burst out, completely stunned. Wait, dude, she had no experience raising a child!
